Improvement in dental forceps



J. D. CHEVALIER` Improvement in Dental Forceps.

Patented ont. 22,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN D. CHEVALIER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN DENTALFORCEPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Y.Patent No. 132,354, dated October 22, 1872; autcdated October 15, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN D. GHEvnLrEn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a`new and useful Dentists Forceps, of which the following Vis a specification:

Figure l is a side view of my improved foroeps.. Fig. 2 is a detail view ofthe inner side of one of the jaws, cut oft' through the line xav, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail cross-sections ofthe same taken through the lines y y and z z,

blades, one or more, formed upon the inner sides of the jaws of the forceps.

A are the handles, and Bare the jaws of the forceps. The shape of the forceps A B is varied, in the ordinary manner, according to the particular teeth for operating upon which the forceps are designed to be used. Upon the middle part ofthe face of the jaws B is formed a blade, O, which is made with a sharp smooth edge. Upon the side edges of the jaws B are formed blades O, as shown in Figs. l and 2 and 3. The space or groove between the blades C is continued to the ends ot the jaws, as shown in Figs. l and 2. The form,num ber, and position of the blades O must depend upon the particular teeth the roots of which are to be extracted, and should be so arranged and formed as to enter the grooves of the said roots and thus take a firm hold upon them.

Some forceps will be made with three blades Yupon each jaw, some with two, some with one;

some with one blade upon one jaw and more than one upon the other.

In using the forceps the jaws will be placed over the gum opposite the root to be extract cd and forced through the gum 'and through the alveolar process to grasp the root of the tooth to be extracted, the blades O cutting their way through the said gum and alveolar to the root. Then, as the forceps and root are withdrawn, the blades O slit the gum and alveolar process and cut their way through, leaving the alveolar in its place and in such a condition that it will quickly heal up, so that.the loss ofthe teeth will not cause suc-l1 a shrinking or falling inot' the jaws and gums as when the ordinary forceps are used and a part of the alveolar removed.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent- The blades O, one or more, formed upon the inner side of the jaws B of a dentists forceps, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN D. CHEVALIER.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosnER. 

